Greece to break up state power company for money

Athens, AP—Greece's conservative-led government on Wednesday announced plans to break up the state-run Public Power Corporation by 2016, as part of a privatization program demanded by the crisis-hit country's creditors. Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said that about 30% of PPC's resources would be spun off to create a rival company, while the company-owned transmission operator, Admie, would also be sold. The government is planning to sell off a 17% stake of PPC after the brea...

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Opinion: Surprises from Khartoum

The Sudanese regime has taken a number of different turns over its 24 years in power, gone back on many of its political slogans, and frequently changed its attitudes in an attempt to cling to power. After coining the slogan, “We eat what we plant and wear what we manufacture,” the regime ruined the country’s agricultural projects and sold off large swathes of state-owned lands in controversial deals, raising concerns among the Sudanese that one day their country would become a wasteland. ...

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